THE ORIGINS OF THE ENGLISH GENTRY by Peter Coss ( 9780511522383 )

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THE ORIGINS OF THE ENGLISH GENTRY

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ISBN 10:

051152238X

ISBN 13:

9780511522383

Publisher:

CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS

Pub. date:

10 December, 2009

Series:

Past and Present Publications

Description:

A sustained attempt to explore the 13th-14th century origins of the English gentry.

Synopsis:

The gentry played a central role in medieval England, and this study is a sustained attempt to explore the origins of the gentry and to account for its contours and peculiarities between the mid-thirteenth and the mid-fourteenth century. The book deals with the deep roots of the gentry, but argues against views which see the gentry as formed or created earlier. It investigates the relationship between lesser landowners and the Angevin state, the transformation of knighthood, and the role of knights in the rebellion of mid thirteenth-century England. The role of lesser landowners in the society and politics of Edwardian England is then put under close scrutiny. It also emphasises changes in social terminology and the rise of social gradation, the emergence of the county as an important focus of identity, the gentry's control over the populace, and their openness to the upward mobility of professionals.

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3 b/w illus.

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Imprint:

Cambridge University Press (Virtual Publishing)

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Non-returnable

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